Remember when I did the poll on whether to stack or offset the wet wall tile? And NO ONE voted for the stacked? Welp, apparently I have a little bit of rebel in me, after all. 
Sometimes, I can’t make my mind up and this was one of those times. I had my heart set on stacked tile, but I was terrified of our crooked ceiling and our crooked walls. Our tilers are flipping magicians and I’m so glad I trusted them.
We had originally intended to do the tiling ourselves, but we ran into sheer fear when confronting those aforementioned wonky ceilings and walls. And, because we wanted the teensiest and tiniest grout lines along with the strong horizontal lines that the open shelving would provide, we were plum terrified to try to make it look right. The tiles are handmade and so they have a natural organic edge to them that, when bumped up against another tile created its own spacer of less than 1/16″. We had to swap out the sanded grout because it was too gritty to fit in between such tiny grout lines, but thankfully the company (Prism) had the Bleached Wood color in unsanded, as well.
You can see that the tilers used spacers on occasion to “bump” the tile up in itty bitty increments so that by the time it reached the ceiling, the tiles were roughly the same size. In reality, they had to accommodate a nearly 3/4″ drop along the ceiling.
Since the tile had an unfinished edge, we went with a Schluter edge in the same color as the grout to create a very pretty frame for the tile.
I do not know how they not only managed to align the tile so perfectly along the ceiling and the wall, but one of the drawbacks to stacked tile is that it can get crooked really quickly. Ours is straight as an arrow and miraculously, along the shelves, there is not gapping or mis-leveled grout lines. It is a miracle, I tell ya.
We placed the shelves temporarily on the brackets that will eventually slide into each shelf, just to get a look-see. Heart emojis galore.
We have run into a minor setback with those shelf brackets. The jig we purchased from the same company we bought the brackets from is not cooperating for us. The holes are very very tight and unless the brackets are dead straight up and down (they are) and left and right (maybe not e-x-a-c-t-l-y), there is no sliding on the shelf. We’ve ordered another drill bit to shave the holes just a wee bit larger, so until that gets here, we are in a holding pattern. Also, we don’t have a Plan B if this doesn’t work…!
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Christine Anne Scott 